Paracleodoxus cineraceus, Monné, Miguel A. & Monné, Marcela L., 2010

Monné, Miguel A. & Monné, Marcela L., 2010, Revision of the genus Carphontes Bates, with the proposal of a new genus, Paracleodoxus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), Zootaxa 2387, pp. 51-56 : 55

Paracleodoxus cineraceus sp. nov.

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Description. Male. Integument dark brown. Body with predominance of appressed dense grayish pubescence. Posterior half of elytra with narrow longitudinal fascia of dark-brown pubescence, equidistant from suture and lateral margin. Centro-basal crist of elytra, and distal half of tibiae and tarsi covered with dark-brown pubescence. Antennae more than 2 times body length, exceeding elytral apices at apex of segment 5.

Prothorax with lateral tubercles acute, apex slightly directed behind; pronotum with sparse punctures in middle and row of coarse punctures on posterior margin. Elytra coarsely and densely punctate on basal half; apices obliquely truncated, angles not projected. Fifth urotergite with apical margin semicircularly emarginated. Fifth urosternite deeply emarginated at apex.

Female. Antennae exceeding elytral apices at apex of segment 7. Fifth urotergite with apical margin feebly notched. Fifte urosternite truncated at apex.

Etymology. Latin, cineraceus meaning ash-colored, gray.

Measurements (mm) male/female. Total length, 7.0–10.1/7.5–10.8; prothorax length, 1.1–1.5/1.1–1.6; prothorax width, 1.7–2.5/2.0–2.7; elytral length, 5.0–8.2/5.6–8.5; humeral width, 2.4–3.4/2.7–4.0.

Type material. Holotype, male. Ve n e z u e l a, Miranda: San Antonio de los Altos (1400 m), 15.V.1964, C. Bordón leg. ( MNRJ). Paratypes. Venezuela, Aragua: Rancho Grande (1100 m), 1 male, 7.VI.1976, J. Clavijo leg. ( FAUV); Distrito Federal: Cumbre de Boquerón (frente a Bajo Seco, 1600 m), 1 female, 20-21.VII. 1969, C. J. Rosales leg. ( FAUV); 2 males, 29.III.1972, C. J. Rosales leg. ( FAUV); Cumbre Pequeña (frente a Bajo Seco), 1 female, 1.V.1978, C. J. Rosales leg. ( FAUV); Pico Naiguatá (2000 m), 2 females, 6. VIII.1962 ( FAUV). Lara: Parque Nacional Yacambú, 1 male, 30.VI.1983, C. Bordón leg. ( MNRJ). Mérida: Bailadores, 1 male, 29.XII.1976, E. Osuna leg. ( FAUV); El Joque, 1 female, 1-15.III.1978, C. Bordón leg. ( MNRJ); El Valle, 2 females, VI.1975, D. Linares leg. ( FAUV). Monte Carmelo (Manzano Alto), 1 female, 22.VIII.1979, L. D. Otero leg. ( FAUV); Tabay (La Mucuy), 1 male, 19-30.V.1977, C. Bordón leg. ( MNRJ); 2 males, VI.1980, Naranjo leg. ( MNRJ); 2 males, 10.IX.1985, C. Bordón leg. ( FAUV); 2 males, 15.VI-30.VII. 1989, S. & J. Peck leg. ( CMNC). Miranda: Petaquire, 1 male, 10.II.1970, C. J. Rosales leg. ( MNRJ); San Antonio de los Altos (1400 m), 1 female, 5.IX.1963, C. Bordón leg. ( MNRJ). Tachira: Parque Cazadero (1700 m), 1 female, 13.IX.1985, C. Bordón leg. ( MNRJ). Trujillo: Boconó, 2 females, 23.VII.1974, F. Fernandez Y. leg. ( FAUV). Colombia, Magdalena: San Lorenzo (41 km S Santa Marta), 1 male, 1.V.1973, Howden & Campbell leg. ( MNRJ).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 4. 1, Carphontes posticalis Bates; 2, C. paradoxus sp. nov., holotype male; 3. Paracleodoxus cineraceus sp. nov., holotype male; 4, P. simillimus sp. nov., holotype female.